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Research collaboration: understanding the
challenges to cooperation
Stephen Flint
University of Manchester
European University cooperation in the era of globalisation London, November 19th 2013
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World shares according to Elsevier - International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base – 2011
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International Vice-Chancellors’ Declaration to G8 leaders
• Take action to allow easier movement of academics, researchers and university students between states
• Invest more in universities to ensure economic growth • Simplify and open-up the international patent
infrastructure to allow greater innovation from research
• Establish a new Global Institution that identifies and promotes best-practice in university-business relations across member nations and beyond
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The largest single site university in the UK40,000 students
11,000 Postgraduate29,000 Undergraduate9,000 International students
25 Nobel prize winners incl. Physics prize in 2010
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Manchester’s Internationalisation track record
‘Patchy’: ranges from very strong to rather limited, across different faculties
Two Examples:
Manchester Business School Worldwide (MBSW)- Offices in Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Miami, Sao Paulo- Blended learning MBA and other programmes
Physics-Large presence at CERN (Geneva) and Fermi Lab (Chicago)-Site of Project Office for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope
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University of Manchester and FP7
• 377 projects covering all thematic areas - 6th in the FP7 league table among other UK universities
• UoM FP7 success rate is 29%• Established consortia with strong leadership and
management secured multiple successes and are well placed to influence Commission decisions for Horizon 2020
• ERC Synergy award with Cambridge and Lancaster Universities
• FET Flagship projects in Graphene and the Human Brain • Marie Curie Initial Training Networks and collaboration with
similar projects/groups/institutions across Europe• Taken advantage of opening of the programme to partners in
third countries such as the US, China and South America
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A personal view
EU FP5 Energie award, 2001-04
This cemented long term links between the partners (TU Delft, Schlumberger, Statoil, Manchester) that are still in place
Has led to many PhDs and a mix of government and industry funding for 10 years after end of project
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Example: Manchester Collaborations with Brazil (2012-13)
Faculty visit in Nov 2012 (Petrobras Research Centre)
Manchester and USP joint geological fieldwork Manchester and FAPESP sign £0.5M research collaboration agreement
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South American Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA)A Brazil-UK International Collaborative Experiment
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University ofManchester
PartnerInstitution
Country-basedIndustry partnerCore funding andscientific/engineeringinput
Co-InvestigatorsCo-supervision of PGRsCo-supervision of Post-Docs
Collaborative Research Projects
-genuine partnerships with sharing of responsibilities and outputs integral role of industry partner in helping to define the research and providing core funding
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Example: Manchester’s collaboration with business
• Several blue chip strategic alliances & others in negotiation
• Over 175 industrial partners• Examples of strategic partnership
– Tesco Sustainable Consumption Institute: £25m– National Grid Power Systems Research Centre:
£4m– Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre: £2m
• Links with over 300 companies
Example
$100 million BP International Centre for Advanced Materials – Manchester Hub with Cambridge, Imperial College and Illinois Urbana as spokes
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Different University structures and bureaucracies (administrative time frames, strikes, capacity, etc.)
Timeframes
Helps to have a common driver (funding opportunity or common natural/social research issue(s)
Consolidating research collaborations so that they operate above the level of individual academics and survive more than one grant/PhD cycle
Issues and problems: experience from Manchester
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How do we increase the amount of collaboration across Europe?
How do we ensure quality and world relevance of this collaboration?
What are the ‘blockers’?
Next steps?
Possible discussion points
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Specific Issues with FP7
• Frequent changes to EC admin processes has meant that training has been on-going in FP7 engagement, especially with introduction of new electronic systems
• Issues with SME involvement towards the end of the programme did cause problems especially when the actual percentage SME involvement was quoted specifically in the call text – on occasion this did lead to less than ideal consortia being developed as proposals were built around securing this percentage involvement - sometimes at the expense of the quality of the project as a whole.